Author Interview With Author of Arroyo, Chip Jacobs!
By Denise Alicea
FROM: The Pen & Muse
Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young man and his dog in 1913 and 1993. In both lives, they are drawn to the landmark Colorado Street Bridge, or “Suicide Bridge,” as the locals call it, which suffered a lethal collapse during construction but still opened to fanfare in the early twentieth century automobile age. When the refurbished structure commemorates its 80th birthday, one of the planet’s best known small towns is virtually unrecognizable from its romanticized, and somewhat invented, past.
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Lambda LitFest Event: Modern Love, Mental Wellness & Healing in LGBTQ Literature at Cal State LA
Rachel Cline & The Question Authority at Chevalier’s Bookstore
MORIA, the literary journal at Woodbury University in Burbank, California, is open for submissions for their Fall issue until October 1, 2019.
Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running in Theatre Adaptation at Casa 0101
Helena María Viramontes, English, brings people and places erased from history to life again. For years, she has focused her lens on the Latino experience in the United States, writing award-winning fiction that draws from her own heritage as a Chicana from Los Angeles. In her latest novel-in-progress, The Cemetery Boys, she explores the experiences of three generations of East Los Angelenos mired in three different wars. During this exploration, she highlights the mix of ethnicities and marginalized communities that flourished and then faded away in the California of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
As Labor Day is today, I have taken this week off from compiling my weekly list of Los Ángeles literary events. However, next week my weekly list of Los Ángeles literary events will return. Expect the next list to be posted sometime on Sunday the 8th.
Your Author Series: Rilla Alexander at Arroyo Seco Regional Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Your Author Series: Robin Benway at El Sereno Branch Library, LAPL – Teens Event
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